GoldenHorseshoe
Just doesn't shut up
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Shame that you need toJob number 1 for January = Renew Passport.....
Shame that you need toJob number 1 for January = Renew Passport.....
Imagine where we’d be with 7 more VAR points!!It’s so hard to achieve anything in this league though isn’t it. The big 6 are locked in stone for the foreseeable. Even when they are in ‘crisis’ ala United and Chelsea, they are still above you. You then have West Ham and Newcastle, banging on the top 6 door. Brighton are apparently in the best thing since sliced bread, and then you have Villa who have had an astonishing year.
We are, literally, best of the rest right now. All we can ask realistically is for more days like this last week than we had the week of West Ham and Fulham away. We are so close to being a really top side, the margin for error though is just minuscule.
Either way, think it’s safe we can put talk of relegation to bed once and for all. Top 10 would be an incredible achievement this season.
Also remember we are due the rub of the green on VAR…. ApparentlyIn the 18/19 season after 20 games we'd scored 23 goals and were in 7th place with 29 points.
After 20 games this season, we've scored 30 goals and are in 11th with 28 points.
I think we could do it.
Talk about deluded optimism after three halfway decent officiating performances.... I'm sure that normal service will soon be resumed! lolAlso remember we are due the rub of the green on VAR…. Apparently
Took me a moment to understand your reply.Shame that you need to
Well I still haven’t fathomed it out .Took me a moment to understand your reply.
I think he meant that before Brexit that passports weren’t needed but now are for E.U. countries.Well I still haven’t fathomed it out .
Why would you need a passport to visit the United States of Europe?Well I still haven’t fathomed it out .
I think he meant that before Brexit that passports weren’t needed but now are for E.U. countries.
We’ve always needed a passport to visit Europe even when we were in the EU.Why would you need a passport to visit the United States of Europe?
Oh…..didn’t know that. I thought free movement of jobs, living and visiting didn’t need passports in the EU.We’ve always needed a passport to visit Europe even when we were in the EU.
Oh…..didn’t know that. I thought free movement of jobs, living and visiting didn’t need passports in the EU.
After 8 games we were 14thLets not get carried away. We won't be making Europe.
18 games to go and we would need to have a record of about 9-5-4 at worst
Not impossible but highly highly unlikely given our up and down form all season.
After 8 games we were 14th
Last 12 games on the form table we are 6th.
Last 6 games we are 3rd
Our form has only been up, not down
It's absolutely possible to get a European spot
It’s so hard to achieve anything in this league though isn’t it. The big 6 are locked in stone for the foreseeable….
….All we can ask realistically is for more days like this last week….
Didn't we get excited under Lage about getting into Europe but that went tits up? I think we need to channel the inner Nuno to keep the march going!OK, I said the other day we're not good enough for Europe, and don't trust a bloke who drinks gin, but I'm moving a bit on one of those.
Just to check, 4 Champions' League places guaranteed and almost certainly 5. Then the 6th placed team and FA Cup winners (or 6th and 7th if the FA Cup winners finish top 5) enter the Europa League. 8th place is the Conference League. Then further complications if English teams win the European competitions. Feel free to correct any of that!
So 8th will very likely be a European place. For my money the top 6 are likely to be the same as now, but I think (without wishing to get carried away by a couple of good results) we're in a competition of maybe 8 teams for positions 7 and 8. Certainly not odds on to finish top 8, but certainly not beyond the bounds of possibility.
Didn't we get excited under Lage about getting into Europe but that went tits up? I think we need to channel the inner Nuno to keep the march going!
As I said on the tactics thread this season seems all about attacking football and teams going for it, and not just the big teams, us, BHA, Villa, B'mouth. It means that games are more open and more difficult to predict; I see us more likely to beat Utd than BHA tbh. We'll miss Hwang for sure but Neto will be back so our goal scoring opportunities will still be there. I haven't been this positive since prime Nuno.A win against Brighton and united and we are really in it.
If we can pick up 4 points still in we would be on 33 after 22 running at 1.5 PPG go on Gon and lads
Agreed there are games to win and Tottenham are frail to a counter attack and pressWe can go full pelt on both nw the squad is almost bad to full strength.....a winning run at home in particular, as we have quite a few winnable games will see us very close to the European places....
8th won't get Europe, 7th is the lowest possible spot you can qualify from by your league positionRemember 8th spot gets Europe depending on domestic cup winners
That could change this season, due to the extra 2 Champions League places based on performance by each country’s teams in Europe per season.8th won't get Europe, 7th is the lowest possible spot you can qualify from by your league position